Do your egg sucking critters have their body divided into segments, maybe
with some sort of appendage or lump on each one?
I think you may be right in thinking they are fly larvae.
-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian R. Tappin <atappin at ecn.net.au>
To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
Date: Friday, 24 April 1998 9:02
Subject: [RML] Egg Suckers
>I think I have a new egg-sucker in some of my breeding tanks. They are
about
>2-3 mm in length and about 1 mm wide. They are fairly firm to squeeze in
the
>fingers. The shape is elongated and wider at one end and when you look at
>them under a magnifying glass you can see their internal organs?.
>
>They are not planaria and do not stretch like planaria do. They actually
>look like a small insect larvae similar but not the same as fly larvae?
>
>Flubenol doesn't kill them so they're obviously not a nematode.
>
>At this point of time I have them only in 2 tanks and are infecting the
>mops. One mop had at least 20-30 of these slippery little monsters.
>
>Anyone got any ideas?
>
>Adrian.
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